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A Cadbury Diary Milk
Kraft makes Cadbury bid
US food company Kraft launches a hostile £9.8bn takover for the Birmingham-based confectioner Cadbury.
Dave Harvey: It's Crunchie time
Kraft given Cadbury bid deadline
'Low growth' Kraft spurned

The coins All change for student on train
A student hurrying to catch his train almost missed it when a ticket machine gave his change in ten pence coins - 187 of them.

Craig Hodson-Walker Suspects carried out other raids
Two men accused of killing a man during a post office raid in Worcestershire have previous convictions, a jury hears.

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Michael Stoker Fighting fit
Soldier's road to recovery and hopes of Afghan return

Children lost in 'loaded system'
A whistleblower reveals how parents with learning difficulties are having their children removed without proper assessments.

Pedestrian dies after truck crash
A woman, aged 70, dies after being hit by a truck at the Salisbury Road and Alcester Road junction in the Moseley area of Birmingham.

'CS gas' sprayed during robbery
A 32-year-old man is sprayed with an aerosol in a robbery during the evening in Wolverhampton.

Car scrappage 'limited'
The government scheme which helps people with old cars buy new models is not helping all sectors of the UK motor industry.
Back 'cured by Cardinal prayer'
A US clergyman talks about how he was cured of a crippling spinal condition after praying to a 19th Century Birmingham theologian.

Man is killed in garden shed fire
A man is found dead after a fire breaks out in a garden shed where he had been thought to be sleeping.

War dead honoured at service
Killed servicemen and women are honoured at a replica cenotaph in Birmingham.

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